Would you like to know about the sweetest Physalis? 🍊🌱
This short note explores diversity across the genus, highlighting traits like berry sweetness and their potential for crop improvement and food systems.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Physalis #Solanaceae #PlantScience #CropDiversity
How old are tomatoes, peppers and golden berries? 🍅🌱
We combined fossils with molecular data to time-calibrate the evolutionary history of #Solanaceae
Curious about total-evidence dating? Take a look!
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
📢 A new EFSA #PestSurveyCard on viruses of #Solanaceae is now available.
🍅 Learn more about surveys targeting #TomatoMarchitezVirus and #TomatoChocolateVirus
➡️ link.europa.eu/3XfhRC
@leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social
@be-phytopath.bsky.social
@mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
@eualiens.bsky.social
Toxic alkaloids are common to the Nightshade (Solanaceae) family.
#PlantOTD #Nicotiana #Solanaceae
Enlightening article review by Buell:
‘Hybrid potatoes: Rooting for heterosis’
tinyurl.com/jesfhwk2
#WIS
#PlantandEnvironmentalScience
#Homozygous
#Heterozygous
#Potato
#Rice
#Maize
#Solanaceae
#IncreasedVigour
#AgriculturalProductivity
#Genome
#Progeny
#GeneticLoad
C. Robin Buell:
Enlightening article review by Buell:
‘Hybrid potatoes: Rooting for heterosis’
tinyurl.com/jesfhwk2
#WIS
#PlantandEnvironmentalScience
#Homozygous
#Heterozygous
#Potato
#Rice
#Maize
#Solanaceae
#IncreasedVigour
#AgriculturalProductivity
#Genome
#Progeny
#GeneticLoad
Fig.1
Holding the book "Victorian Nightshades" in front of a snowy landscape
2 new books on #plants & the #nonhuman in #Literature & #Culture
Elizabeth A. Campbell explores the #Solanaceae (belladonna, potato, tobacco, pepper, tomato etc) in diverse texts such as poetry & fiction but also botanical treatises, newspaper reports & medical ads
#CulturalStudies #FoodStudies
A fascinating @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social talk from @sandyknapp.bsky.social on Solanaceae. Here's the link to the 'global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family' Solanaceae Source to which she referred.
Get it bookmarked! 😉
#Botany #Solanaceae
solanaceaesource.myspecies.info
Upright open growth habit of Solanum nectarifolium.
#NewSpecies!
Solanum nectarifolium
A newly discovered #solanaceae from #australia!
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/FBF66E47-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
#Phytokeys #SolanumNectarifolium
#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #wildflowers #flowers #plants
Photo of a leafy shoot. The stems and leaves are glandular and dozens of fungus gnats are trapped by the sticky glands. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
A surface is described as 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 when it’s covered with glandular hairs. In the case of this Petunia exserta, the glands are tiny but sticky enough to trap lots of fungus gnats! (This is a great plant for gnat control in a greenhouse.) #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Annotated photo of two tubular flowers. A bracket indicates the tube. Another bracket indicates the limb. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
In past posts, I’ve mentioned “limb” and “tube” when referring to the flower. These terms apply to sympetalous (petals united) flowers, like this Brunfelsia lactea, where the corolla is narrow at the base & flares broadly at its apex. #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a single, white datura flower annotated with brackets and text. A bracket indicates the calyx, and another bracket indicates the corolla. The text reads: “Corolla = collective term for the petals, especially if individual petals are not obvious. Calyx = collective term for the sepals, especially if individual sepals are not obvious. Calyx + corolla = perianth.” Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
The sepals and petals have collective terms. The calyx is the collective term for sepals; the corolla is the collective term for petals. Taken together, they are the perianth. The model is Datura metel 'Belle Blanche' #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
A collage of 13 Nightshade family fruit photos from around Cambridge and in Suffolk: Solanum pseudocapsicum, Datura stramonium, Nicandra physaloides, Lycium barbarum, Atropa belladonna, Solanum dulcamara, Solanum nigrum, Solanum nitidibaccatum, Hyoscymus niger, Solanum triflorum, Solanum chenopodioides, Solanum sisymbriifolium, …& Solanum villosum.
👋 Farewell 2025. I've known better years but you did excel in Nightshades 🤗
🎄🍒, Thorn 🍏, 🍏of Peru, Duke of Argyll's 🫖plant,
☠️, 🪵, 🖤, & 💚Nightshades,
Henbane, Small, Tall, & Sticky Nightshades,
…& ❤️Nightshade to end the year
See ALT for scientific names.
#Botany #Solanaceae @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Lanterns lit by afternoon sunshine (yesterday) in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social - Alkekengi officinarum (or Physalis alkekengi), Chinese or Japanese Lantern, Winter, Bladder or Klabuster Cherry 🤯.
A member of the #Nightshade family. #Botany #Gardening #Solanaceae
Solanum stellaticalycinum, flower at full anthesis.
#NewSpecies
Solanum stellaticalycinum
A newly discovered solanaceae from #peru!
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/6BC1FD64-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
#Phytokeys #SolanumStellaticalycinum
#FAIRdata
#OA #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #botany #flowers #plants #wildlife #solanaceae
Another new #Solanum #species ( #Potato family, #Solanaceae) from the #montane #forest understory in Central #Peru.
#PlantHunters #NewSpecies
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Our lovely #BSBI #Solanaceae Referee is away - in the meantime, anyone have any thoughts on this? Sandy arable margin, coastal SE Suffolk. From a couple of metres away I'd assumed S nitidibaccatum, but leaves well-dissected, and not at all glandular-hairy and so wondering about S sarrachoides.
🍏 Apple harvest time. For Solanaceae/Nightshade family fans that means Thorn-apple, Datura stramonium. Here's an end-on view of the seed capsule and the black seeds within. #Botany #Solanaceae
Artwork of Satine from Solanaceae by DarkChibiShadow from a sponsored stream. Satine (they/them), a blue-haired non-binary transfem witch, is dressed in a light blue spectre outfit in an orgy with three other spooky spectres with their cocks out. They're sucking off one cock, with another cock cumming on Satine's right butt cheek.
Oh my! Its a spooky orgy with Satine from @darkchibishadow.bsky.social's comic #Solanaceae and a few spectres!
This was from a stream I sponsored @darkchibishadow.bsky.social to do for Satine (my favourite of DCS' characters!)
In an otherwise barren verge around a supermarket carpark in Newmarket Rd #Cambridge surprised to find Apple of Peru, Nicandra physaloides, looking as though it has been carefully tended! 💜🖤🤗
#Solanaceae #Nightshades #Botany
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
The Black Henbane is looking so much better (and heartier) this time around. It’s later in the season (Fall now), so less pests to eviscerate them.
#blackhenbane #hyoscyamusniger #witch #witchingplants #solanaceae
Naama Menda presents now the Sol Genomics Network (SGN) database and the BreedBase system at the #SOLRUB2025. SGN is a #Solanaceae based database with genomes, transcriptomic data, metabolic pathways, and manually curated genes.
Marie Bolger closes the session at the #SOLRUB2025 with a presentation about the application of Helixer to the annotation of the #Solanaceae genomes.
Rachel Kerwin comes back to #Solanaceae at the #SOLROB2025 with her work about trichomes acylsugars. Plants have a huge diversity of specialized metabolites . Trichomes acylsugars are a good example of structure diversity.
Rachel Kerwin comes back to #Solanaceae at the #SOLROB2025 with her work about trichomes acylsugars. Plants have a huge diversity of specialized metabolites . Trichomes acylsugars are a good example of structure diversity.
@sandyknapp.bsky.social opens the #SOLRUB2025 meeting talking about how wonderful are #Solanaceae species. New dating results are coming out soon. The family is older that we thought. Almost 90 MY. She closes her presentation talking about the importance of community.
#SOLRUB2025 conference has started. We have in front of us one week to share good science among colleagues in Torino. Joint meeting for #Solanaceae and #Rubicaceae communities.
A basket of globose fruits that are green, yellow l, orange and red.
These are the fruits of Solanum sessiliflorum. The juice is delicious. #Peru #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
